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Piaya melanogaster (Black-bellied Cuckoo)

Synonyms: Cuculus melanogaster

Wikipedia Abstract

The Black-belied Cuckoo, Black-bellied squirrel Cuckoo, Black-bellied Piscua, Black Cat Soul (Piaya melanogaster) is an amazon bird member of the Cuckoos group, of the order Cuculiformes and from the family Cuculidae. The genus Playa is considered part of the Cuckoos of the New World. Even though this species has a wide range of distribution, little is known about its ecology and natural history. This species is considered as monotypic. The word melanogaster means “black belly”; it has Greek roots, melas means “black” and faster means “ belly”.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
13
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
40
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 26.9162
EDGE Score: 3.32921
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  103 grams
Female Weight [3]  109 grams
Male Weight [1]  98 grams
Weight Dimorphism [1]  10.2 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates)
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  100 %
Forages - Canopy [2]  100 %

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Automeris hamata[4]
Automeris illustris[4]
Automeris liberia[4]
Cocytius duponchel (Duponchel's Sphinx)[4]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Haverschmidt, F. and GF Mees. 1994. Birds of Suriname. Vaco, Paramaribo, Surinam
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0